Abdullah al-Belgian

Abdullah al-Belgian was an Islamic State preacher.

Biography
Abdullah al-Belgian was born in Belgium to a Muslim family, and he later emigrated with his son (also named Abdullah) to the Islamic State upon its formation in 2014. al-Belgian preached radical Islamism and Salafism from a "preaching van" that travelled around al-Raqqah and the Euphrates River region of the Islamic State, and he said that he wanted to orphan the West's children as they had orphaned Muslim children, driving him to tears when he expressed this view to Vice News in an August 2014 interview. His son was also interviewed, with his father giving him the answers to the journalist Medyan Dairieh's questions; the son said that he wanted to be a jihadist instead of a suicide bomber.